Word: chiefed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boss Tom Pendergast is a character. Chief proprietor of the "Ready-Mixed Concrete Co.," he has provided and hauled much of Kansas City's north end, not to mention providing most of the politics of the city and environs as leader of "He Goat" (local equivalent of Tammany Hall). Once when Tom and his family were away, robbers looted his $100,000 home of $150,000 worth of jewels and clothes including 480 pairs of silk stockings bought for his daughter Marceline's trousseau. However, Tom was in Manhattan at the time, and was reported to have...
...from his easy chair at the Chancellor's official residence, No. 10 Downing Street. He knew that all Belgium read his words next day, yet he called the distinguished Prime Minister of that friendly state "poor Jaspar."* Careless of affront to Japan, he spoke of Dr. Mine- ichira Adachi, Chief of the Japanese Delegation, as "the quiet, plaintive Adachi." The whole speech bristled with that same humoring superiority?that air of considering other statesmen mere children? which infuriated the Latin statesmen at The Hague to the point of tantrums and tears...
...disappears" as to whether the Jew-Arab clashes which began last month at Jerusalem's famed Wailing Wall were "spontaneous or pre-conceived." This evidence will be sifted by a special British parliamentary com- mission, created last week by Baron Passfield and chairmanned by Sir Walter Shaw, recently Chief Justice of the British Straits Settlements, a colonial jurist of tact and renown...
Every Scots chief had his hereditary piper who was entitled to a gilli (servant) to carry his pipes. The piper had the status of a gentleman. Wherever the chief went, his piper went along too. In the early morning while the laird was dressing the piper promenaded in front of the castle, piping his master a good morning. In emulation of the Scottish lairds, the English kings had their court pipers. Henry VIII was a notable bagpiper. Today in front of Buckingham Palace there parades in the morning the King's Piper. George V keenly enjoys the music...
...names of the Americans are important. Paul Weeks Litchfield is chief of the U. S. lighter-than-air ship industry. He began with Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. in 1900 as a factory superintendent and built Goodyear's first tire with his own hands. Before the War he persuaded Goodyear's Founder-President Frank A. Seiberling to build spherical balloons for the U. S. air services. Before, during and since the War, Mr. Litchfield built sausage balloons and nonrigid dirigibles (blimps; for the Army and Navy. In 1924 he and Edward G. Wilmer, Mr. Seiberling's successor as Goodyear president, were...